Ryan North Quotes

You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing.

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• Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Honor

• That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Today
  • Television
  • News

• Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Age
  • Mom

• From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Money

• It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

  

  Earl Warren
  • People
  • Government
  • Progress

• I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

  

  Dana Plato
  • You
  • Working
  • Pleasure

• Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Better

• But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Done
  • Know
  • Learn

• At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Game
  • Day
  • Football

• He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Way
  • Service
  • Used

• Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Honesty
  • Wonderful

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Back

• I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Career
  • Action

• You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Commitment

• Death is just life's next big adventure.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Death
  • Adventure

• The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture of M.I.A. When I was contacted by Versace, it seemed a great idea to invert the circle. Versace's designs have always been copied; now it's Versace that copies the copies, so those that copy must copy the copies. So this will continue.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Circle

• I said, 'What I'm going to do is dress as plain as humanly possible.' I'm not going to wear anything fancy, I'm not going to have fancy music, I'm not going to have fancy pyro - I'm literally just going to be a dude walking into the ring. I'm going to look like I just got off work from a construction site, and I am now punching you in the face.

  

  Dean Ambrose
  • Work
  • Music
  • Walking

• Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Hurt
  • Face
  • Scare

• But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • Point
  • Trigger

• I enjoy the creative side of the business side of being a restaurateur. That's my thing. The thing I'm constantly thinking about is, how do you create new, interesting situations that keep people coming back?

  

  Todd English
  • Interesting
  • Enjoy
  • Creative

• You have to recognize as a creative person that not everyone's going to be into what you're doing.

  

  Ryan North
  • Creative
  • Everyone
  • Recognize